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The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Charles Caleb Colton

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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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Accomplishment Easy Hide Hypocrisy Learning Pretend
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Kill Ourselves Passion Strong Submission
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
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Complete Integrity Oneself
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Agreement Body Death Man Mindset Togetherness Wife
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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Alone Book Himself Man Study
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Dangerous Deal Fools
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
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Best Light Material Moral
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
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Creature Excellence Feeling Language Learning School
What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Choice Known Willing Yourself
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
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Better Certain Knowledge Term
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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Difficult Errors Favor Old Prejudice Run Task
He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.
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Bad Better Goodness Himself Stand Vice Virtue Worst
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
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Silence Word Yourself
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Better Dangerous Wait

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